Family-centred practices of healthcare professionals in three emergency departments in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Emmamally, Waheedha; Brysiewicz, Petra

doi:10.7196/sajcc.2018.v34i2.358

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“…The importance of caring for critically ill patients and their families is well researched (Carlson et al, 2015;de Beer & Brysiewicz, 2016;Emmamally & Brysiewicz, 2018).…”

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“…Furthermore, caring processes capacitate family members to be autonomous in decision-making for their loved ones (Soklaridis et al, 2019). According to Emmamally and Brysiewicz (2018), caring for critically ill patients and their families enables nurses to develop relationships that are respectful, dignified and nonjudgemental. Caring for critically ill patients and their families would require that critical care nurses understand cultural differences, beliefs and values amongst the diverse patients they nurse.…”

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Critical care nurses’ perceptions of caring for patients at a selected hospital in KwaZulu-Natal.

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Background: Caring in a critical care setting requires a holistic process of individualised, patient-focused, and specialised care within a work intensive and technologically focused environment. These are what have an impact on how caring unfolds within a critical care environment. The COVID-19 pandemic has further altered the care relationship between critical care nurses, critically ill patients and their families. Aim: To determine critical care nurse’s perceptions of caring for patients at a selected hospital in KwaZulu-Natal Methods: A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 139 participants in a tertiary quaternary hospital. Data collection used the Caring Assessment for Caregivers questionnaire, and analysis was with descriptive statistics. Results: Results revealed that most of the participants were females above 30 years, holding a Diploma in Nursing and had > 10 years of work experience. Participants had an overall high perception of caring, with a total mean score of 116.01 (range of 25- 125). Of the five subscales, the subscale of “Maintaining belief,” had the highest mean composite score 24.25(range of 5-25) and the subscale of “Being with,” had the lowest mean composite score 22.70. There was no significant relationship found between the critical care nurses’ socio-demographic characteristics, the overall score and the total scores of each of the five subscales. Conclusion: Whilst critical care nurses reported a high overall perception of caring, lower mean scores on the subscale “Being with” suggest that there areas for critical care nurses to grow in their role as carers. Further research is necessary for replication of the study using qualitative approaches to bring forth valuable findings on how the critical care environment has an impact on the caring experiences of critical care nurses.

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“…The importance of caring for critically ill patients and their families is well researched (Carlson et al, 2015;de Beer & Brysiewicz, 2016;Emmamally & Brysiewicz, 2018).…”

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Critical care nurses’ perceptions of caring for patients at a selected hospital in KwaZulu-Natal.

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Family presence during patient acute deterioration: A survey of nurses' attitudes and reflection on COVID-19 in an African setting

Botes

Mabetshe

2022

African Journal of Emergency Medicine

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Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice, and social care: a scoping review

Lamph,

Nowland,

Boland

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Background Establishing and maintaining relationships and ways of connecting and being with others is an important component of health and wellbeing. Harnessing the relational within caring, supportive, educational, or carceral settings as a systems response has been referred to as relational practice. Practitioners, people with lived experience, academics and policy makers, do not yet share a well-defined common understanding of relational practice. Consequently, there is potential for interdisciplinary and interagency miscommunication, as well as the risk of policy and practice being increasingly disconnected. Comprehensive reviews are needed to support the development of a coherent shared understanding of relational practice. Method This study uses a scoping review design providing a scope and synthesis of extant literature relating to relational practice focussing on organisational and systemic practice. The review aimed to map how relational practice is used, defined and understood across health, criminal justice, education and social work, noting any impacts and benefits reported. Searches were conducted on 8 bibliographic databases on 27 October 2021. English language articles were included that involve/discuss practice and/or intervention/s that prioritise interpersonal relationships in service provision, in both external (organisational contexts) and internal (how this is received by workers and service users) aspects. Results A total of 8010 relevant articles were identified, of which 158 met the eligibility criteria and were included in the synthesis. Most were opinion-based or theoretical argument papers (n = 61, 38.60%), with 6 (3.80%) critical or narrative reviews. A further 27 (17.09%) were categorised as case studies, focussing on explaining relational practice being used in an organisation or a specific intervention and its components, rather than conducting an evaluation or examination of the effectiveness of the service, with only 11 including any empirical data. Of the included empirical studies, 45 were qualitative, 6 were quantitative, and 9 mixed methods studies. There were differences in the use of terminology and definitions of relational practice within and across sectors. Conclusion Although there may be implicit knowledge of what relational practice is the research field lacks coherent and comprehensive models. Despite definitional ambiguities, a number of benefits are attributed to relational practices. Systematic review registration PROSPERO CRD42021295958

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Family-centred practices of healthcare professionals in three emergency departments in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Cited by 4 publications

References 30 publications

Critical care nurses’ perceptions of caring for patients at a selected hospital in KwaZulu-Natal.

Critical care nurses’ perceptions of caring for patients at a selected hospital in KwaZulu-Natal.

Family presence during patient acute deterioration: A survey of nurses' attitudes and reflection on COVID-19 in an African setting

Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice, and social care: a scoping review

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